IRS Section 179 tax deduction allows you to put computer software into service in December and still qualify for a full year’s deduction - it’s a substantial savings - check with your accountant for details.
More details can be found in this publication on the IRS Web Site.
If this makes you want to buy some software, feel free to contact me!
FrontRange, the makers of GoldMine, are (perpetually) working on the next patch for GoldMine. If you have any suggestions or would like to post a bug, they need to hear it NOW!
Much like people who don’t vote in an election, you don’t get to complain about the outcome if you didn’t do anything to try to make it go your way — and who doesn’t like to complain?
So, that one little thing that’s annoyed you for ten years and caused you to have to click two extra times every time you do that one thing… REPORT IT!
To submit a bug report directly to FrontRange, go HERE.
To submit a suggestion directly to FrontRange, go HERE.
GoldMine Premium Edition’s packed with great new features and options. One hidden gem is the ability to show the contact name in the Pending and History tabs.
If you’ve ever fumbled around trying to find that one e-mail in from that one person at one of your company’s best clients, you know that the history tab can sometimes be a big haystack to search. Sure, you can filter the activity column to show only e-mail’s in, but that still doesn’t whittle it down enough to find that one from Joe a few weeks ago. If only there was a contact name column in the history tab so you could filter or sort by it…
Your wish is GoldMine Premium Edition’s command!
It’s a simple matter of setting the option to show that contact column. To do so, go to Tools|Options and then to the Record tab and check the option, Show contact name on activity tabs (see below).

Looks like you’ll have to stop telling the boss you can’t find that e-mail and get back to work, eh?
LinkedIn, popular business networking site, is a great place to reconnect with ex colleagues and customers and do some networking, but how can you use it with GoldMine?
Download this .TXT file and create a new GM+View with it. This view will pass the current contact’s name and zip to the LinkedIn search. It might not find a specific match, but it’ll usually get you pretty close (unless their name is John Smith!)
For instructions on adding GM+Views to your GoldMine, refer to some of these previous posts:
Enhancing GoldMine with Google-based GM+Views
and
Simple Document Management Enhancement for GoldMine
While you’re at it, check out my profile and add me on LinkedIn if you’re so inclined!
GoldMine Premium Edition sees it’s third patch, version 8.0.3 (aka 8.03.80716)
This is the third patch since the initial release of GoldMine Premium Edition (8.0). It brings with it a nice list of fixes and improvements that make GoldMine Premium Edition a compelling choice for 6.x users now living with a end-of-life’d product.
Here’s the list of line item fixes (my favorites are in bold!) from the release notes included with this patch:
Feel free to contact Doug directly for more information about this patch or GoldMine Premium Edition, in general!
FrontRange Solutions, the makers of GoldMine, announced, today, special pricing for upgrades from GoldMine Standard Edition or Corporate Edition — if the order is placed before July 31st, 2008:
Due popular demand by customers wanting to upgrade to GoldMine PE we are extending a special Special Summer offer:
To facilitate upgrades and to expand the benefits of GoldMine into marketing, customer service and other departments we have special pricing valid through July 31, 2008.
* GoldMine Standard Edition can upgrade and expand to GoldMine Premium Edition for $ 474.00
* GoldMine Corporate Edition can upgrade and expand to GoldMine Premium Edition for $ 374.00
To take advantage of this special pricing and/or to learn more about GoldMine Premium Edition, feel free to give Castell Computers’ world headquarters a call at (310)601-4738
GoldMine 7 has long suffered from a bad reputation as a bug-riddled version of GoldMine. With the 7.0.4 patch, last year, this reputation was somewhat redeemed. With the 7.5 patch, FrontRange aims to banish all the bug demons of the 7.x product and make good on all those Corporate Edition clients’ maintenance dollars.
The 7.5 patch has been a long time coming. It was originally released in January of ‘08 after much testing. Apparently, not enough testing was done as it was pulled from release within about a week with assurances that it would be back soon.
Fast-forward seven months later and soon has finally come. GoldMine 7.50.80618 has been released. It brings with it a lot of fixes and enhancements that have long been sought after by GoldMine users. Many of these enhancements are not even available in GoldMine 8 Premium Edition. This is not a surprise, however, as many late-in-life patches to prior versions of GoldMine brought lots of stability as well as some fledgling features that hadn’t quite made it into the newer versions of the product. One has only to look back at GoldMine 3.2, 5.7 and 6.7 to see similar patterns.
If you’re still on GoldMine 6 or GoldMine 7 Corporate Edition and are current on your maintenance with Frontrange, you can have GoldMine 7.5 for free. CD’s can be ordered from Frontrange with the update. If you are a new customer, you can’t have GoldMine 7.5 as new customers receive GoldMine 8 Premium Edition.
There are a lot of highlights in the release notes, but what really stands out, to me, are the many improvements to the e-mail capabilities. SSL, IMAP, TLS, NTLM, CRAM-MD5 — all of these acronyms represent things the old GoldMine e-mail client was incapable of. No more.
I wonder if these things will make it into 8.0.3 or if we’ll have wait for 8.1 to enjoy them? Regardless of when they make it, stability trumps an early release date any time. Kudos to the GoldMine team for sticking to it and getting us a good 7.5 release. Now, who wants to install it first?
Without more rambling from me, I bring you, the 7.5 release notes:
Support for Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 enables integration with the latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. Also, the Word and Excel links now are optional components of the main GoldMine installation, rather than being installed separately.
Support for Windows Vista as an end-user operating system.
Support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Support for Windows Server 2003 R2, Service Pack 2 (SP2).
Secure SSL connections now are supported in the E-mail Center. To configure an SSL connection, go to Edit > Preferences > E-mail.
The IMAP protocol now is supported in the E-mail Center, providing more security and better interoperability with other e-mail clients. To configure an IMAP e-mail account, go to Edit > Preferences > E-mail.
The E-mail Center now supports integrated Windows authentication using NTLM. With this feature, e-mail access can be set up without entering or updating the password in GoldMine. To configure this option, go to Edit > Preferences > E-Mail.
E-mail Center performance can be configured with the following settings:
1. (New) When messages are deleted in the E-mail Center, they are not immediately deleted from the server until the connection is closed. This behavior provides the fastest performance but can cause deleted messages to reappear as duplicates in some scenarios. If this problem appears, the following UserName.INI setting can be used:
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PopImmediateDelete=1 (closes server connection after each message is deleted)The default value for this setting is 0, which keeps the connection open after deleting a message.
2. (New) GoldMine automatically sends periodic messages (“no-ops”) to the e-mail server to keep the connection open for fast response time. By default these messages occur every 10 seconds. Some e-mail servers require more frequent messages to maintain the connection. To change the frequency of these messages, use the following UserName.INI setting:
[Internet]
PopNoopTimer=nnnn (where nnnn is the number of seconds between messages)3. GoldMine automatically disconnects from the e-mail server if it has no related activity for 10 minutes, by default. This is useful, for example, when using both the Online and Auto-retrieve options with an e-mail server that permits only one connection. To change the time delay before automatically disconnecting, use the following UserName.INI setting:
[Internet]
PopIdle= nnnn (where nnnn is the number of minutes until disconnect)Synchronization and database rehosting performance has been enhanced, especially when using the Firebird database.
The 2 GB size limit has been removed for synchronization transfer sets and installation files for one-button synchronization.
Concurrent GoldSync connections are queued to improve reliability. As users connect to a GoldSync server, they automatically are placed in a queue, up to the number of users established in the Number of Connections screen within GoldSync configuration. If simultaneous processing of concurrent connections is required instead of queuing, please contact your Solutions Partner or FrontRange Support Services for recommendations and instructions.
An updated ZIP code database for the United States is available though the QuickStart Wizard.
GoldMine Premium Edition sees it’s second patch, version 8.0.2 (aka 8.02.80208)
This is the second patch since the initial release of GoldMine Premium Edition (8.0). It brings with it a long list of fixes and improvements that make GoldMine Premium Edition a compelling choice for 6.x users facing the impending non-supported status of their product by Frontrange on April 30th.
Here’s the long list of line item fixes from the release notes included with this patch:
Feel free to contact Doug directly for more information about this patch or GoldMine Premium Edition, in general!
Do you find the simple act of looking up a contact to be frustratingly slow in GoldMine Premium Edition? Take heart, much better performance is just a settings tweak away!
When you double-click a field to lookup by contact name, for instance, GoldMine does a search of the database where contact begins with nothing immediately upon the search center opening. For whatever reason, this returns the entire database. Have you got more than a few thousand contacts in there? Better go grab another cup of coffee — unless you can beat GoldMine to the punch and start typing a name before it ‘aligns’ the lookup window with your search term.
How do you solve this? Wait for the forthcoming 8.0.2 patch from FrontRange and cross your fingers? No. You can correct this behavior with a little tuning of your search center’s lookup alignment delay. The setting can be found here: Tools|Options|Lookup|Lookup alignment delay.
I have mine set to 7 tenths of a second and I can usually get my hand from the mouse to the keyboard and type part of a name before that initial search hits — but I play a lot of video games. Unless you also have the reflexes of a ninja-sniper, you might want to try 9 or 10 — maybe higher!
Finding a good balance between minimizing the immediate blank search problem but still retaining that great drill-down responsiveness as you type the search term is somewhat of an art. The setting’s optimal number can be different for everyone.
Join me tomorrow afternoon (January 31st) at 1:30 PM PST as I sit in on a free one-hour online webinar that’ll show you how a GoldMine add-on tool called MasterMine can help to beat the age-old problem that plagues so many CRM systems today…dirty data.
If your company is struggling with GoldMine’s data hygiene, you can’t afford to miss this session!
Register here.
Hope to see you there!
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